Ride Your Wave

Hinako’s surfboard is a metaphor with training wheels in this seaside romance. She tumbles into love when a firefighter carries her from flames. The wave that carries them forward eventually learns gravity.

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Masaaki Yuasa directed Ride Your Wave in 2019. See Masaaki Yuasa's full filmography, where to start with Masaaki Yuasa, or where to go after you've seen everything by Masaaki Yuasa.

Ride Your Wave was released in 2019 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 95 minutes.